Improvement in horse-powers



tnited tatt LEWIS A. PETER, OF NEFFS, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 108,178, dated October 11, 1870.

The Scheule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS A. lETnn, of N eifs, in the county of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement iu Horse- `Power; and I do hereby declare `that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a top view of my improved horsepower.

Figure 2 is an end View of the same, part being broken away to show thc construction.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. i i

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved horse-power, simple in construction, effective in operation, strong, durable, and not liable to get ont of order, and which will enablethe saine amount of work to be done with a less number of horses than the ordinary horse-power; and

lt consists in the construction and combination of the various parts of the machine, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the base frame of the machine, to which is attached the operating parts of the machine.

B is the horizontal drivcwheel, to which the power is applied, and which is pivoted to the frame Upon the under side of the rim of the wheel B are formed or toit are attached teeth, which mesh into the teeth of the small pinion or gear-wheel C, attached to the end of the drive-shaft l).

The shaft D revolves inbearings attached to lthe i'ranlc A, and upon it, near its outer end, is plaeeda gear-wheel, E, which revolves loosely upon the said shaft.

lo the cnd of the shaft Dis attached a ratchet- Y. wheel, F, upon the teeth of which the springr pa-wl G takes hold.

- lhc spring` pawl G is attached to the loose. wheel E, so that, when the horses are stopped, the operating powers ot' the machine may more 011 until the nio mentnm is exhausted; and, when the horses are started, the operating parts of the machine may hev at oncc set in motion.

I is a counter-shaft, havingr the driving-pinion H on one end, thc fly-wheel K on the other, and the bandwheel J in the middle, and is journaled in bearings upon a frame, A.

rlhe arrangement of these parts, with respect to 1 the others above described, are of the utmost iinpoi-tance to the working of my machine.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-ters Pat-v ent- The combination, with` the mechanism of horsepowers, constructed substantially as described, and drive-shaft D, loose spur-wheel E, ratchet and pawl F G, spur H, counter-shaft- I, and band-wheel J ot the iiy-wheel K, arranged as and for the purpose de scribed.

' LEWIS A. PETER.

. Witnesses:

NATHAN PETER, JOEL I. GEIGER. 

